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An American Mosque
Late one night, arsonists broke into the newly-constructed mosque, doused prayer rugs with gasoline, then lit the building ablaze. The mosque was reduced to ashes and an investigation ensued. For the first time, the film's characters respond publicly to the crime, speaking passionately about thei...
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Buzkashi!
From the shadows of the majestic Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan comes a story of Azam, a sheep herder and Buzkashi champion. Azam plays for honor and integrity, but his success is increasingly thwarted by alliances in the sport. Facing the pressures of modernization on the playing field and within...
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Dar al Islam, New Mexico: America's Eco Mosque and Retreat
Tim Winter (Abdal Hakim Murad) interviews environmentalist Othman Llewellyn at the Dar al Islam Mosque, New Mexico.
The Dar al Islam campus is anchored around a Mosque and a school building on a hilly plateau across from the historic village of Abiquiu in Northern New Mexico.The original build...
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Mosaic
Personal experiences of spiritual seeking, weaving a tapestry of stories from three diverse people, who were looking for answers to their vital questions, and found them in Islam. Through in-depth interviews they take us through the process that led them to look for their path and discover Islam....
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The Virginia House Delegate
The first Muslim to be elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, shares his experience running and being accountable to the people of his district.
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The Calligrapher
In studio with world famous Calligrapher Mohamed Zakariya, who shares personal and touching insights into his work.
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Skateistan: Four Wheels and a Board in Kabul
Not long ago OLIVER PERCOVICH and SHARNA NOLAN arrive in Kabul with little more than a couple of skateboards. in a country where children constitute more than half the population, they soon discover, that their boards draw local children like a magnetic force. After beginning regular skateboardin...
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This is Palestine
Two elderly artists, Widad Kawar and Abdulhay Mossallam, who have memories of the Palestinian Nakba and have used their creativity to preserve their culture in different ways.
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Redneck Muslim
Redneck Muslim explores the life and work of Shane Atkinson, a hospital chaplain in-training at North Carolina's biggest trauma centre and founder of the on-line group the 'Society of Islamic Rednecks.' A 45-year old, white "good old boy" from Mississippi who converted to Islam in 1999, Shane is ...
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The Tentmakers of Cairo
The Tentmakers of Cairo offers unprecedented access to a small community of talented craftsmen, known as tentmakers, who practice the uniquely Egyptian art of Khayamiya, or hand stitched appliqué. In a small covered market, in the heart of Old Islamic Cairo, four tentmakers expertly stitch ornate...
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My Name is Salt
Year after year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujerat, India, where they will stay for an endless eight months and extract salt from the earth, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them. Director Farid...
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Seeds on Stone
One in four people in Lebanon is escaping from another country. Some have arrived as early as the 1950s - and they never left. Children and grand-children are born refugees, and "home" becomes just a distant idea. This is the story of a family.
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I am the People
As the Egyptian people rise up in Tahrir Square, a rural community in the Nile valley follows the revolution on TV, radio and in the newspapers. Intimately shot over the three-year period from the overthrow of Mubarak to the fall of Morsi, we are shown an alternate view of the revolution through ...
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Postcards from Tora Bora
During the War, the Osman family escapes from Afghanistan leaving everything behind. Their only suitcase, filled with family photos, is stolen. Now after two decades of living in America, Wazhmah Osman, a young Afghan-American returns to her childhood home. With only rapidly fading memories, she ...
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Singing Pictures
The Patua (Chitrakar) communities of West Bengal have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. They tell stories of Muslim saints as well as Hindu deities, and offer devotion to saints at Muslim shrines. They used to wander from village to village, receiving food and coins for re...